Publications
115 publications, imported from OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and DBLP. Also on Google Scholar and ORCID.
2026
- preprintAFRILANGTUTOR: Advancing Language Tutoring and Culture Education in Low-Resource Languages with Large Language Models
- preprintAmharicStoryQA: A Multicultural Story Question Answering Benchmark in Amharic
- journalBeyond Majority Voting: Agreement-Based Clustering to Model Annotator Perspectives in Subjective NLP Tasks
- workshopCan I Read My X-Ray Report? Towards Accessible Radiology Report in Low-Resource African Context
- conferenceCommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data
- workshopFull Fine-Tuning vs. Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for Low-Resource African ASR: A Controlled Study with Whisper-Small
- workshopLexiMCH: A Bilingual Medical Knowledge Lexicon for Maternal and Child Healthcare in Low-Resource Languages and Healthcare Environments
- workshopMedia Framing Analysis of Ethiopian Conflict: An Approach Combining MAXQDA and NLP for Low-resource Languages
- conferencePOLAR: A Benchmark for Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multi-Event Online Polarization 🏆 Best Paper Award, EEUCA 2026 @ ACL 2026
- workshopRevisiting German Complex Word Identification: Contextualized LLMs and Feature Injection
- workshopSAINT: Multilingual Span-Level Interpretability for Sentiment Analysis
- workshopSemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization 🏆 Best Paper Runner-Up Award, SemEval 2026
- workshopTrust but Check: LLM-Assisted Review of Human Translations in African Languages
2025
- conferenceA Case Against Implicit Standards: Homophone Normalization in Machine Translation for Languages that use the Ge'ez Script
- conferenceAdaption and Evaluation of Generative Large Language Models for German Medical Information Extraction
- conferenceAfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages
- conferenceAfroXLMR-Social: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for African Languages Social Media Text
- conferenceAM-DETOX: Analyzing Amharic Text Detoxification Using Large Language Models
- preprintAutomatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for African Low-Resource Languages: A Systematic Literature Review
- workshopAutomatic Speech Recognition for African Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions
- conferenceCULEMO: Cultural Lenses on Emotion - Benchmarking LLMs for Cross-Cultural Emotion Understanding
- conferenceEnhancing Multi-Label Emotion Analysis and Corresponding Intensities for Ethiopian Languages
- conferenceEvaluating Deep Learning Models for African Wildlife Image Classification: From DenseNet to Vision Transformers
- conferenceEvaluating the Capabilities of Large Language Models for Multi-label Emotion Understanding
- preprintExploring Cultural Nuances in Emotion Perception Across 15 African Languages
- conferenceFASCIST-O-METER: Classifier for Neo-fascist Discourse Online
- conferenceHatePRISM: Policies, Platforms, and Research Integration. Advancing NLP for Hate Speech Proactive Mitigation
- preprintKI4Demokratie: An AI-Based Platform for Monitoring and Fostering Democratic Discourse
- conferenceLECTURE4ALL: A Lightweight Approach to Precise Timestamp Detection in Online Lecture Videos
- conferenceMultilingual and Explainable Text Detoxification with Parallel Corpora
- workshopOverview of the Multilingual Text Detoxification Task at PAN 2024
- workshopSemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection 🏆 Best Task Award, SemEval 2025
- journalSilenced Voices: Exploring Social Media Polarization and Women's Participation in Peacebuilding in Ethiopia
- preprintThe Rise of AfricaNLP: Contributions, Contributors, and Community Impact (2005-2025)
- conferenceThe State of Large Language Models for African Languages: Progress and Challenges 🏆 Best Paper Award, Deep Learning Indaba 2025
- preprintWhispering in Amharic: Fine-tuning Whisper for Low-resource Language
2024
- posterAI4Democracy: Dynamic Dashboard for Analyzing Polarization and Extremism in Online Media
- posterAM-DETOX: Analyzing Amharic Text Detoxification Using Pre-trained Large Language Models (Poster)
- conferenceBLEnD: A Benchmark for LLMs on Everyday Knowledge in Diverse Cultures and Languages
- preprintDemarked: A Strategy for Enhanced Abusive Speech Moderation through Counterspeech, Detoxification, and Message Management
- workshopDetecting Hate Speech in Amharic Using Multimodal Analysis of Social Media Memes
- workshopEnhancing Amharic-LLaMA: Integrating Task Specific and Generative Datasets
- conferenceEthioLLM: Multilingual Large Language Models for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation
- workshopExploring Boundaries and Intensities in Offensive and Hate Speech: Unveiling the Complex Spectrum of Social Media Discourse
- preprintHate Speech Detection and Classification in Amharic Text with Deep Learning
- workshopInvestigating Hate Speech Beyond Detection and Classification: Uncovering Complex Intensities and Targets
- conferenceLarge Language Models for Sexual, Reproductive, and Maternal Health Rights
- conferenceOverview of PAN 2024: Multi-author Writing Style Analysis, Multilingual Text Detoxification, Oppositional Thinking Analysis, and Generative AI Authorship Verification Condensed Lab Overview
- conferencePruning Literals for Highly Efficient Explainability at Word Level
- workshopSemEval Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages
- posterSemEval-2025: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection (Poster)
- conferenceSemRel2024: A Collection of Semantic Textual Relatedness Datasets for 14 Languages
- posterSentiment and Hate Speech Datasets for More Than 14 African Languages
- workshopUHH at AVeriTeC: RAG for Fact-Checking with Real-World Claims
- journalUncovering the priorities of scientific research on
sustainable development goals : A case study in Ethiopia - conferenceWalia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets
2023
- conferenceAfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages
- preprintAmhEn: Amharic-English Large Parallel Corpus for Machine Translation
- workshopARDIAS: AI-Enhanced Research Management, Discovery, and Advisory System
- conferenceCodeAnno: Extending WebAnno with Hierarchical Document Level Annotation and Automation
- conferenceExploring Amharic Hate Speech Data Collection and Classification Approaches
- workshopMulti-Modal Learning Application – Support Language Learners with NLP Techniques and Eye-Tracking
- conferenceMultilingual Racial Hate Speech Detection Using Transfer Learning
- workshopNatural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities
- workshopSemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval)
2022
- workshopChallenges of Amharic Hate Speech Data Annotation Using Yandex Toloka Crowdsourcing Platform
- conferenceElvis vs. M. Jackson: Who has More Albums? Classification and Identification of Elements in Comparative Questions
- journalHypernymy Detection for Low-resource Languages: A Study for Hindi, Bengali, and Amharic
- conferenceMore Like This: Semantic Retrieval with Linguistic Information
- workshopQuestion Answering Classification for Amharic Social Media Community Based Questions
- conferenceThe 5Js in Ethiopia: Amharic Hate Speech Data Annotation Using Toloka Crowdsourcing Platform
- conferenceThe Effect of Normalization for Bi-directional Amharic-English Neural Machine Translation
2021
- conferenceActiveAnno: General-Purpose Document-Level Annotation Tool with Active Learning Integration
- conferenceHateXplain: A Benchmark Dataset for Explainable Hate Speech Detection
- conferenceHow Hateful are Movies? A Study and Prediction on Movie Subtitles
- conferenceImpacts of Homophone Normalization on Semantic Models for Amharic
- journalIntroducing various Semantic Models for Amharic: Experimentation and Evaluation with multiple Tasks and Datasets
- journalMasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages
- conferenceSCoT: Sense Clustering over Time: a tool for the analysis of lexical change
- workshopThe Development of Pre-processing Tools and Pre-trained Embedding Models for Amharic
- conferenceWord Complexity is in the Eye of the Beholder
2020
- thesisActiveAnno: Flexible and E cient Document Annotation Tool with Active Learning Integration
- conferenceAutomatic Compilation of Resources for Academic Writing and Evaluating with Informal Word Identification and Paraphrasing System
- conferenceExploring Amharic Sentiment Analysis from Social Media Texts: Building Annotation Tools and Classification Models
- workshopUHH-LT & LT2 at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Fine-Tuning of Pre-Trained Transformer Networks for Offensive Language Detection
- workshopUHH-LT at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Fine-Tuning of Pre-Trained Transformer Networks for Offensive Language Detection
2019
- thesisAdaptive Approaches to Natural Language Processing in Annotation and Application 🏆 GSCL Award for Best Doctoral Thesis
- conferenceAnalysis of the Ethiopic Twitter Dataset for Abusive Speech in Amharic
- posterCurrent Status, Issues, and Future Directions for Ethiopian Natural Language Processing (NLP) Research
2018
- conferenceA Multilingual Information Extraction Pipeline for Investigative Journalism
- workshopA Report on the Complex Word Identification Shared Task 2018
- conferenceDemonstrating PAR4SEM - A Semantic Writing Aid with Adaptive Paraphrasing
- book chapterNew/s/leak 2.0 - Multilingual Information Extraction and Visualization for Investigative Journalism
- conferencePar4Sim - Adaptive Paraphrasing for Text Simplification
2017
- book chapterCollaborative Web-based Tools for Multi-layer Text Annotation
- conferenceCWIG3G2 - Complex Word Identification Task across Three Text Genres and Two User Groups
- workshopEntity-Centric Information Access with Human in the Loop for the Biomedical Domain
- workshopGuidance for Multi-Type Entity Graphs from Text Collections
- workshopIIT-UHH at SemEval-2017 Task 3: Exploring Multiple Features for Community Question Answering and Implicit Dialogue Identification
- conferenceMultilingual and Cross-Lingual Complex Word Identification
2016
- workshopA Web-based Tool for the Integrated Annotation of Semantic and Syntactic Structures
- journalAn adaptive annotation approach for biomedical entity and relation recognition
- workshopLearning Paraphrasing for Multi-word Expressions
- workshopLearning Paraphrasing for Multiword Expressions
- conferencenew/s/leak - Information Extraction and Visualization for Investigative Data Journalists
- workshopnew/s/leak – A Tool for Visual Exploration of Large Text Document Collections in the Journalistic Doman
2015
- conferenceGermaNER: Free Open German Named Entity Recognition Tool
- journalInteractive and Iterative Annotation for Biomedical Entity Recognition
- workshopNarrowing the Loop: Integration of Resources and Linguistic Dataset Development with Interactive Machine Learning
2014
- conferenceAutomatic Annotation Suggestions and Custom Annotation Layers in WebAnno
- workshopNetwork of the Day: Aggregating and Visualizing Entity Networks from Online Sources
- conferenceWebAnno: a flexible, web-based annotation tool for CLARIN
2013
- conferenceWebAnno: A Flexible, Web-based and Visually Supported System for Distributed Annotations
2009
- thesisTETEYEQ (ተጠየቅ): Amharic Question Answering System for Factoid Questions
- workshopTETEYEQ: Amharic Question Answering For Factoid Questions